Sheldon Brown Virtual-Reality Installation Opens
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An interactive artwork designed by Calit² layer leader Sheldon Brown is now on exhibit at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego. The show, Smoke and Mirrors, is a virtual-reality environment that engages viewers in a series of activities drawn from the cultural and social history of tobacco usage. Smoke and Mirrors allows two to six visitors at a time to enter into a shared virtual environment through their own projected computer graphic media portal.
Brown is a professor of Visual Arts and director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UCSD, and leader in charge of the New Media Arts “layer” for Calit²’s UCSD division. His installation is one of three anti-smoking projects at the Fleet, funded by a $641,000 grant from the California Department of Health, Tobacco Control Section, in cooperation with the California Arts Council. A series of six computer games recently went online at www.rhfleet.org, and the museum has commissioned artwork mass-produced in the form of stickers, temporary tattoos and T-shirts, to be distributed at local concerts and events.
The project will engage guests online, on-site and in every corner the art piece reaches. The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, a non-profit science museum, is located at 1875 El Prado, San Diego, California. For more information, call (619) 238-1233 or visit www.rhfleet.org.
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